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Season 1: A New Right

Season 2: The Bardak Strikes Back

Season 3: The Return of the Marcionites

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I don't think the Zman will be happy to be labelled a conservative by now.

He is widely read among those circles though. He writes for Taki, Ann Coulter retweets him and probably his goal is to eventually get quoted live by Tucker Carlson.

Presumingly that's why he can just describe and investigate the current societal rot in terms of the "how" (the managerial class), rather than the "who". The managerial thing is at the root of the "how" we get exiled from polite society - and also at the root of the more immediate "why" (because managers have to defend the creed). But it fails to account for many things: why the managerial thing described by Hampl's article is in place, why there are these specific taboos in place and not others, and so on.

There has got to be a cabal determining what's allowable and what's taboo, and how to let the creed trickle down to subordinates via the managerial society, to the masses via the media, to the dissidents via the secret police etc. The Zman, Jared Taylor do good analyses, but are notoriously reticent to talk about the very top of the chain.

I don't think at all you are larping with this blog, your views have been coherent in time. But I can't help not to notice, in jest, that you are the ultimate rootless cosmopolitan: you can't get citizenship from the places you feel you belong no matter how much you try, while the only passport you got is that one you really don't want.

This below is interesting and revealing about the real power of the managerial elite. Boris Johnson is at the top amongst them, and yet:

"TOWARDS the end of 2020, editors of major UK media outlets were summoned, one by one, and not for the first time, to individual briefings at Downing Street.

Apparently, all the meetings followed the same format. Each editor was shown into Boris Johnson’s office, where Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance gave a presentation about how a devastating next wave of ‘Covid’ was going to kill 500,000 people and cripple the NHS.

The usual bogus decontextualised data and ludicrously misleading graphs were waved in their faces. Then the two witch-doctors slithered out of the room and Johnson instructed the editors to get behind a winter lockdown.

At this point, one editor decided to interrogate the Prime Minister. He said something along these lines: ‘Come on, [...] There’s no justification for another lockdown – why are you doing this?’

Boris Johnson adopted a haunted and helpless expression, gestured towards the door through which Whitty and Vallance had just exited and said: ‘I’ve got to do what they tell me.’ "

https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/comedy/bob-moran/all-the-wrong-questions

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